2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m hurdles (women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 400 meter hurdles | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 33 athletes from 25 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Athens Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 21, 2004 (preliminary round) August 22, 2004 (semi-finals) August 25, 2004 (final) |
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The women's 400-meter hurdles at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens took place on August 21, 22 and 25, 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. 33 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was the Greek Fani Chalkia . She won ahead of the Romanian Ionela Târlea and the Ukrainian Tetjana Tereschtschuk-Antipowa .
Ulrike Urbansky started for Germany and was eliminated in the semifinals.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
Olympic champion 2000 | Irina Priwalowa ( Russia ) | 53.02 s | Sydney 2000 |
World Champion 2003 | Jana Pittman ( Australia ) | 53.22 s | Paris 2003 |
European Champion 2002 | Ionela Târlea ( Romania ) | 54.95 s | Munich 2002 |
Pan American Champion 2003 | Joanna Hayes ( USA ) | 54.77 s | Santo Domingo 2003 |
Central America and Caribbean Champion 2003 | Allison Beckford ( Jamaica ) | 55.12 s | St. George’s 2003 |
South American Champion 2003 | Lucimar Teodoro ( Brazil ) | 56.86 s | Barquisimeto 2003 |
Asian Champion 2003 | Huang Xiaoxiao ( People's Republic of China ) | 55.66 s | Manila 2003 |
African champion 2004 | Surita Febbraio ( South Africa ) | 55.12 s | Brazzaville 2004 |
Oceania Champion 2002 | Mae Koime ( Papua New Guinea ) | 69.15 s | Christchurch 2002 |
Existing records
World record | 52.34 s | Julija Pechonkina ( Russia ) | Tula , Russia | August 8, 2003 |
Olympic record | 52.82 s | Deon Hemmings ( Jamaica ) | Atlanta Final , USA | July 31, 1996 |
Note: All times are based on Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).
Preliminary round
A total of five preliminary runs were completed. The first two athletes of each run qualified for the semi-finals. In addition, the six fastest drivers, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Forward 1
August 21, 2004, 9:05 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Julia Pechonkina | Russia | 53.57 | |
2 | Tetiana Tereshchuk-Antipova | Ukraine | 54.63 | |
3 | Ulrike Urbansky | Germany | 55.15 | |
4th | Monika Niederstätter | Italy | 55.57 | |
5 | Cora Olivero | Spain | 56.19 | |
6th | Patrina Allen | Jamaica | 56.40 | |
7th | Aïssata Soulama | Burkina Faso | 57.60 |
Forward 2
August 21, 2004, 9:12 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jana Pittman | Australia | 54.83 | |
2 | Ekaterina Bikert | Russia | 54.95 | |
3 | Natalija Torzhina-Alimshanova | Kazakhstan | 55.22 | |
4th | Ieva Zunda | Latvia | 56.21 | |
5 | Benedetta Ceccarelli | Italy | 56.28 | |
6th | Surita Febbraio | South Africa | 56.49 |
Forward 3
August 21, 2004, 9:19 am The German registered for the competition did not take part.
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Ionela Târlea | Romania | 54.41 | |
2 | Brenda Taylor | United States | 54.72 | |
3 | Nezha Bidouane | Morocco | 55.69 | |
4th | Anna Jesień | Poland | 56.03 | |
5 | Shevon Stoddart | Jamaica | 56.61 | |
6th | Klodiana Shala | Albania | 60.00 | |
DNS | Stephanie fight | Germany |
Forward 4
The first four runners in each of the two races (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the final. August 21, 2004, 9:26 am
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Fani Chalkia | Greece | 53.85 | NO |
2 | Lashinda Demus | United States | 54.66 | |
3 | Ekaterina Bachvalova | Russia | 55.16 | |
4th | Debbie-Ann Parris | Jamaica | 55.21 | |
5 | Yvonne Harrison | Puerto Rico | 55.84 | |
6th | Mame Tacko Diouf | Senegal | 57.25 | |
7th | Salhate Djamalidine | Comoros | 59.72 |
Forward 5
August 21, 2004, 9:33 am
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Małgorzata Pskit | Poland | 54.75 | |
2 | Sheena Tosta | United States | 54.81 | |
3 | Huang Xiaoxiao | People's Republic of China | 54.81 | |
4th | Androula Sialou | Cyprus | 55.02 | |
5 | Daimí Pernía | Cuba | 55.91 | |
6th | Andrea Blackett | Barbados | 56.49 | |
7th | Galina Pedan | Kyrgyzstan | 59.02 |
Semifinals
Run 1
August 22, 2004, 9:20 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
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1 | Julia Pechonkina | Russia | 53.31 | |
2 | Jana Pittman | Australia | 54.05 | |
3 | Sheena Tosta | United States | 54.32 | |
4th | Brenda Taylor | United States | 55.02 | |
5 | Natalija Torzhina-Alimshanova | Kazakhstan | 55.08 | |
6th | Małgorzata Pskit | Poland | 55.24 | |
7th | Ulrike Urbansky | Germany | 56.44 | |
8th | Androula Sialou | Cyprus | 65.72 |
Run 2
August 22, 2004, 9:29 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
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1 | Fani Chalkia | Greece | 52.77 | OR |
2 | Ionela Târlea | Romania | 53.32 | |
3 | Tetiana Tereshchuk-Antipova | Ukraine | 53.37 | NO |
4th | Ekaterina Bikert | Russia | 53.79 | |
5 | Lashinda Demus | United States | 54.32 | |
6th | Ekaterina Bachvalova | Russia | 54.98 | |
7th | Debbie-Ann Parris | Jamaica | 54.99 | |
8th | Huang Xiaoxiao | People's Republic of China | 55.53 |
final
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Fani Chalkia | Greece | 52.82 | |
2 | Ionela Târlea | Romania | 53.38 | |
3 | Tetiana Tereshchuk-Antipova | Ukraine | 53.44 | |
4th | Sheena Tosta | United States | 53.83 | |
5 | Jana Pittman | Australia | 53.92 | |
6th | Ekaterina Bikert | Russia | 54.18 | |
7th | Brenda Taylor | United States | 54.97 | |
8th | Julia Pechonkina | Russia | 55.79 |
August 25, 2004, 9:55 pm
Two Russians and two US-Americans as well as one runner each from Australia, Greece, Romania and Ukraine qualified for the final.
There was a slightly larger group of favorites for this race. They included the Australian world champion Jana Pittman, the Russian world record holder and World Cup third Julija Pechonkina, the Romanian European champion and World Cup fourth Ionela Târlea and the US athlete Sheena Tosta. In the semifinals, the Greek runner Fani Chalkia, who was enthusiastically celebrated by the spectators, set a new high-quality Olympic record. With that she moved up to the group of medal candidates. The Moroccan world champion from 2001 Nezha Bidouane was here in Athens , but had to give up before the race.
Chalkia took the lead from the seventh hurdle. When it went into the home straight, she was less than a meter in front of Pittman, the Ukrainian Tetiana Tereschchuk-Antipowa and Târlea. All the other runners were already far behind. The Australian world champion broke down pretty much in the last hundred meters and lost every chance of a medal. In the front, however, Fani Chalkia had by far the best stamina. She won with 52.82 s and was only five hundredths of a second slower than in the semifinals. Her lead over runner-up Ionela Târlea was 56 hundredths of a second. Behind the Romanian, the Ukrainian Tetjana Tereschtschuk-Antipowa came in third. Sheena Tosta was fourth with a strong finish ahead of Jana Pittman and the Russian Jekaterina Bikert, while Julija Pechonkina finished eighth and last behind the American Brenda Taylor.
Fani Chalkia's Olympic victory brought the first Greek medal in this discipline.
Tetiana Tereschchuk-Antipowa also won her country's first medal in the 400 meter hurdles for women.
Web links
- SportsReference 400m hurdles , accessed May 11, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed on May 11, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on May 11, 2018
Video
- 2004 Olympics Women's 400m Hurdles , posted December 25, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed May 11, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 797 , accessed on May 11, 2018